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A Filtered Detroit ExperienceWed, 20 Mar 2019 07:11:32 +0000enhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ILoveDetroitMichiganhttps://feedburner.google.comA Note Regarding “Corrado Parducci: 300 Commissions”http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ILoveDetroitMichigan/~3/UCQfPLVo9gw/
http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/detroit-architecture/a-note-regarding-corrado-parducci-300-commissions/#respondSat, 16 Jun 2018 00:38:21 +0000http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/?p=26379[Above: Detail of New York Times Printing Plant, Brooklyn. Corrado Parducci, sculptor] Dear Readers, In pursuit of a publishing deal, and to preserve the integrity of our research, we have taken down our recent web-post entitled “Corrado Parducci: 300 Commissions”. Please join us here again in a year or two, after our book has been [...]

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Dear Readers,

In pursuit of a publishing deal, and to preserve the integrity of our research, we have taken down our recent web-post entitled “Corrado Parducci: 300 Commissions”. Please join us here again in a year or two, after our book has been published, to to see the remaining 247 Corrado Parducci commissions that we failed to enumerate in the two months our post was up. ~IDM

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http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/on-vacation/street-arts-of-denver-colorado-june-2018/#respondThu, 14 Jun 2018 21:40:08 +0000http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/?p=28064It’s been only 18 short months since our last investigation of Denver’s hyperactive street art subculture. Holy wow, it’s INSANE how much new stuff has been put up during that time. Surely the Mile High City ranks among North America’s most fertile outdoor art scenes. We’d love to tell y’all exactly where to find these [...]

]]>It’s been only 18 short months since our last investigation of Denver’s hyperactive street art subculture. Holy wow, it’s INSANE how much new stuff has been put up during that time. Surely the Mile High City ranks among North America’s most fertile outdoor art scenes. We’d love to tell y’all exactly where to find these 500+ works of Denver street, graffiti and sticker art….. but who’s got the time? Find ’em your damn self, like we did. Every single piece showcased herein can be found within the city limits of Denver with just two exceptions found one half a block west of the city limits in the suburb of Lakewood. Traipse up and down Federal Boulevard and Broadway, and through the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, Lincoln Park, Baker, Speer, Washington Park West, Curtis Park, the River North Arts District and Globeville if ya hope to find half as many as we did. Maybe you’ll get lucky. Happy Hunting. ~IDM

]]>New Orleans Sticker and Street Art Explosion: Spring 2018. Yup. Another three days in New Orleans nets over 250 shots of unique underground creations presented within the grand, all-encompassing artwork that is the Crescent City.

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http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/detroit-graffiti-street-art/street-art-of-milwaukee-junction-winter-2018/#respondThu, 08 Mar 2018 05:45:22 +0000http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/?p=25722We shot these 60+ newly discovered works of graffiti and street art on January 10th and February 28th, 2018, in and around the cradle of American automobile manufacturing otherwise known as the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, USA. Early auto production facilities of note in the immediate vicinity include Henry Ford’s original Piquette Street [...]

]]>We shot these 60+ newly discovered works of graffiti and street art on January 10th and February 28th, 2018, in and around the cradle of American automobile manufacturing otherwise known as the Milwaukee Junction neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, USA. Early auto production facilities of note in the immediate vicinity include Henry Ford’s original Piquette Street Plant (1904) at Piquette & Beaubien, the Albert Kahn-designed Fisher Body Plant #21 (1919) at Harper & Hastings, and the Albert Kahn-designed Murray Body Corporation Plant (1928) now known as Russell Industrial Center along the northbound US-75 Service Drive just north of Grand Blvd. We recommend a nice long look at each as you tour this visually striking and historically significant district inhabited by a number of local artist collectives……

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Unsigned @ E Milwaukee & Beaubien….

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Say what you will about Sintex…..dude’s got skills and still reigns as one of Detroit’s best spray-painters. Army’s damn good, too. Find the works shown in the next four pics at approximately 2895 E Grand Blvd. Speaking of skills, if you love Rap music, don’t sleep on the Buffalo-bred rhymesters depicted here, Westside Gunn & Conway….

Find these expertly rendered pieces on the east exterior wall of Enterprise Uniform Company at 2862 E Grand Blvd. We nearly passed on shooting these hyper-realistic beauties thinking they were most likely photographs transferred to fabric. We love being wrong. Seriously impressive work here by local master Anthony Lee…

Phillip Simpson’s Baltimore Gallery at 314 E Baltimore pictured below; extremely colorized by a number of local creators including Phybr, Rich Ayers, Jason Reed and Simpson himself. Find a handful of more street-level pieces on the retaining wall along the south side of the property…

A handful of anonymous works in the immediate vicinity of Tangent Gallery @ 715 E Milwaukee….

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If you hope to get your own shots of the five urban masterworks shown below locate the very first train trestle passing over Beaubien north of Piquette. Approach from the two-track directly to the northwest, and cross the trestle by foot. You’re welcome….

Find this bad boy back on street level, on a retaining wall in the shadow of the second trestle over Beaubien north of Piquette. Wet & Nasty? 6pm? Hell Yah. We’ll be there for sure….

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Can’t say for sure who painted this work on the north exterior wall of Contemporary Electric Detroit at 6543 Hastings, but if we had to guess we’d bet on Antonio “Shades” Agee….

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http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/on-vacation/20-dishes-alliance-traverse-city/#respondSun, 28 Jan 2018 00:07:58 +0000http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/?p=25119“They didn’t have crap like this when I was growing up in Traverse City,” says Dale Carlson, our content director and 1989 graduate of Traverse City St. Francis High School. “If ya wanted something fancy ya went to the Trillium (atop the Grand Traverse Resort Tower) or Boone’s Long Lake Inn for a steak. If [...]

]]>“They didn’t have crap like this when I was growing up in Traverse City,” says Dale Carlson, our content director and 1989 graduate of Traverse City St. Francis High School. “If ya wanted something fancy ya went to the Trillium (atop the Grand Traverse Resort Tower) or Boone’s Long Lake Inn for a steak. If ya wanted to dine snazzy in town ya went to some dump called ‘The Coach & Four’. Nowadays ya got at least ten places better than that to choose from. At least. Whatta buncha BS. Whatever. I woulda never had the palette to appreciate it back then anyway.” That said, we give you twenty unique and aesthetically striking dishes we feasted upon at Alliance of Traverse City, Michigan, located at 114 Hall Street, near the very heart of northern Michigan’s summer tourism capitol. Enjoy! ~ IDM

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1. Hot Tea Service….

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2. Bread Service with herb butter….

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3. Taco el Pastor….

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4. Grilled Beets with kaffir yogurt, dukkah & dill….

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5. Broccoli with smoked bleu cheese, scallions & bread crumbs….

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6. Kinilaw with sea bass, olive oil & chilies….

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7. Beets with labnah, roti & honey….

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8. Mushroom Salad with lovage, dijon & quail egg….

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9. Stir Fried Butternut Squash with miso, herbs & peanuts….

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10. Cabbage with ground pork, sofrito & chicken skin….

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11. Grilled Carrots with chimichurri, sunflower seeds and ricotta….

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12. Tomato & Watermelon Salad with gochujang, sesame & cucumber ice….

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13. Thai-Fried Chicken with crispy rice, jalapeño, cilantro & mint….

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14. Bibb Lettuce with bleu cheese & bread crumbs (accompaniment to the New York Strip Filet)….

]]>Enjoy these 33 shots of interior works by Corrado Parducci at Detroit’s Masonic Temple, a supplement to our “Corrado Parducci: 300 Commissions” web-post, first published in January of 2018. Parducci works at Detroit’s Masonic Temple were rendered in wood, metal, stone and terra cotta, but most importantly, plaster. Our extensive investigations into Parducci’s creative processes lead us to believe that in the majority of cases, where the creation of his plaster works are concerned, at the Masonic Temple and elsewhere, a pattern was first created by Parducci, in person and on-site, and then duplicated to completion by other skilled artisans employed or sub-contracted by the construction company. Well documented exceptions exist, generally his most elaborate plasters, which were created in full solely by his hand, and we would suspect that tendency to have been no different here at the Masonic Temple. Can’t say with any certainty, though, exactly which of these many ornate works possess that distinction, as nearly all of them qualify as potential candidates. Regarding his work at the Masonic Temple, Parducci states in a 1975 interview with Smithsonian historian Dennis Barrie: “Now all the interior of the Masonic Temple…. I better talk about that to you because that’s kind of interesting. There are about a dozen large rooms, very large, you know, lodges, and every one is a different style. There’s a Greek and there’s a…. The ballroom is Renaissance, and there’s a cathedral in there which is Gothic, and then there’s some Tudor rooms, there’s an Egyptian room, and there’s the Doric room…. Now all these rooms are in the character and style of a particular period! And I had them all on my fingertips.”

We encourage our readers to keep in mind, as they peruse our album, the impressive breadth of craftsmen who contributed to Detroit’s Masonic Temple, both inside and out, and to be aware, that no matter how well documented Parducci’s work here may be, and no matter how strong the resemblance to other works of his, the possibility always exists, with nearly every piece, that it might’ve been created (or even co-created) by one of his many peers who’s works also adorn this megalithic icon of Detroit architecture. ~IDM

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http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/detroit-graffiti-street-art/murals-in-the-market-2017-31-more-flavors/#respondSat, 09 Dec 2017 06:15:32 +0000http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/?p=24373Have a nice long look at 31 choice creations put up during the 2017 incarnation of the annual “Murals in the Market” festival, epi-centered in the Eastern Market district of the great city of Detroit, Michigan, USA. This year’s event took place from September 21st to the 24th for the most part, but many artists [...]

]]>Have a nice long look at 31 choice creations put up during the 2017 incarnation of the annual “Murals in the Market” festival, epi-centered in the Eastern Market district of the great city of Detroit, Michigan, USA. This year’s event took place from September 21st to the 24th for the most part, but many artists appear to have started (or even completed) their works significantly earlier. Sure, it’s not a competition, and our opinion on matters such as these probably ain’t worth much, but regardless….. Huge ups to Pat Perry, who painted our personal favourite of this year’s collection. ~IDM

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http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/detroit-graffiti-street-art/berkley-street-art-fest-july-15th-2017/#respondSat, 09 Dec 2017 06:15:16 +0000http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/?p=24443Enjoy these fruits of the Berkley Street Art Fest, which took place on the mean streets of I♥DM’s hometown, Berkley Effin’ Michigan, on July 15th of this year. We gotta say…. it’s about damn time…. that we published this post…. but more importantly, that our Utopian suburban home at long last is properly represented within [...]

]]>Enjoy these fruits of the Berkley Street Art Fest, which took place on the mean streets of IDM’s hometown, Berkley Effin’ Michigan, on July 15th of this year. We gotta say…. it’s about damn time…. that we published this post…. but more importantly, that our Utopian suburban home at long last is properly represented within the great pantheon of Metro Detroit’s enviable legacy of street and graffiti art traditions! Huge thanks and respect to this event’s organizers, its sponsors, and most of all, the artists.

The Berkley Street Art Fest was actually comprised of three distinct events within one…. First, a series of ten murals by nine artists, painted upon the exterior walls of sponsor businesses, all located on two of the town’s major arteries, Coolidge Highway and Twelve Mile Road. Second, and perhaps most impressive, a handful of live demonstrations by ultra-skilled professional chalk artist, David Zinn, near Coolidge & Dorothea Road, the results of which we had the amazing luck to capture digitally later in the evening, long after the fest’s conclusion. And third, a public chalk art competition, which also took place near the intersection of Coolidge & Dorothea, with over 20 participants. We managed to capture decent photographs of just a handful of entries. Fortunate considering we shot them all by night, with flash. Our post concludes with four entries in the chalk art competition by artists who’s identities remain unknown to us. Drop us a line if ya happen to know who made ’em. ~IDM

]]>We discovered and photographed these 15 works of Eastern Market Street Art on October 5th and 6th of this year whilst seeking out recently completed pieces included in the 2017 “Murals in the Market” festival. Find works by Arlin Graff and Imel Battle scattered among the mostly anonymous street art included herein. Wheatpastes featuring J Dilla and ‘Prodigy’ of Mobb Deep made our day, as did the ‘post-truth’ political statements that have quite properly become a common theme of street arts throughout present-day America. We implore y’all to scroll to the bottom of this collection and thoroughly examine the last six photos of this post, which show a newly painted masterpiece entitled “Legends”, found in the Bert’s Warehouse alley, running east to west, from Rivard to Russell Street, just a half block north of Division. Massive respect to Nivek Monet, the local creator of this beauty that so thoroughly elucidates Detroit’s stunning legacy of world-class musicianship. ~IDM

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http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/on-vacation/history-murals-of-ashland-wisconsin/#respondSat, 09 Dec 2017 06:14:41 +0000http://ilovedetroitmichigan.com/?p=24502Should you ever find yourself in the town of Ashland, Wisconsin, make a point to see its wonderful collection of expertly rendered murals by local painters, Kelly Meredith & Susan Prentice Martinsen. Since 1998 Meredith and Prentice have been beautifying the streets of this lakeside hamlet with history-drenched images of epic proportion and skill. Find [...]

]]>Should you ever find yourself in the town of Ashland, Wisconsin, make a point to see its wonderful collection of expertly rendered murals by local painters, Kelly Meredith & Susan Prentice Martinsen. Since 1998 Meredith and Prentice have been beautifying the streets of this lakeside hamlet with history-drenched images of epic proportion and skill. Find the vast majority of their works in the heart of downtown Ashland, in the area bounded by Lake Shore Drive, Beaser Avenue, 6th Street and Ellis Avenue. Don’t sleep on the outliers, though, as much of their most technically brilliant work is located on the outskirts of town, specifically, the Ashland Voyageurs Mural at the Quality Inn of Ashland, and the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center Mural out on County Road G. Hopefully by the time you take your tour, powers that be have found a new home for the 19th-Century Ashland Bayfront Mural, formerly located inside the McDonald’s at 720 West Lake Shore Drive, but currently missing in action. Also, be sure to take note of the one work in our collection NOT by Meredith and/or Martinsen, the J.C. Moon/Ashland Breakwater Lighthouse Mural by Brian Olson, in the back alley of 411 West Main Street. ~IDM